We know you’ve been waiting and the time has finally come! The results are in for our 2025 Spring Fox Tales Prize with theme, Mixed Messages! As usual, you all exceeded our expectations. The Black Fox team enjoyed the interesting takes on our Mixed Messages theme. Thank you for being brave enough to send your work in to us—we will never take it for granted. Many thanks to all the writers who submitted their fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for us to consider. Congratulations to our winner, the longlisted writers, and of course, all the submitters who bet on themselves. Always keep writing no matter what.
Winner
Bonnie Shao for “bad bilingual”
Longlist
Jackie Alvarado for “Farewell to Black Rabbit”
Marianne Connolly for “Karaoke Night at the Siren’s Call”
Catherine Davidson for “The Etruscan Wedding Casket”
Daniel DiStasio for “Brother’s Keeper”
Teya Hollier for “Where Dreams Go”
Chad LeJeune for “Humphrey Bogart with Tattoos”
Claire O’Halloran for “Blots”
Diana Rojas for “Hubcaps”
Shobha Srinivasan for “SCRABBLE”
Jack Whaler for “Overdue”
We hope our contests are a way for writers to challenge themselves and stretch their writing muscles. If you’re up for a challenge be sure to check out our contest page to see active contests. Thank you all for allowing us to read your work!
